Mystery solved. I am using the "Faster Fox"
plug-in. It does pre-fetching of links on a page. With the setting
at "Turbo" (most aggressive) this authentication fails. For me, it fails
at all settings above "Courteous". (YMMV) Dialing back the
aggressiveness of the plug-in resolved this issue. Thanks again for all
the help.
--Hank
Okay, now I know what is going on, but I don't know why, or what to do
about it... Everything in the authentication works perfectly save for
one thing. It appears that the call for loginid =
session.value('loginid',None) at the beginning of the authentication block
returns a different value than does request.field('lgoinid', 'nologin').
As a result, the second phrase of the "if ..." statement that verifies
the login fails. This only happens with Firefox 1.5 from my
desktop. All my other browsers return the same value in both
calls. Does this suggest some possible cause in the browser?
Regardless, thanks for all your help. Clearly, Webware
is not at fault here, and I will pursue the browser issues with the Mozilla
folks for some explanation. If I find out anything probitive I will post
it back to this thread for future reference.
--Hank
> Is there a way to get Webware to log or disclose
mor information on the
> authentication dialog from the application
server side? I'd like to
> find out if the password is
actually getting there, and what the data is
> when it
does.
The easiest way is to add print statements, see
http://www.w4py.org/WebKit/Docs/UsersGuide.html#debugging
The
output will be visible in the logs. You may want to start the
AppServer
script with the "-u" option to have unbuffered output.
The servlets
in question are in /Webware/WebKit/Admin
--
Christoph
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